CHARLES W. TRIGG PAPERS ( ) [4.5 cu. ft: 8 DB, 5 ShB, 1 F/O]

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1 - 1 - AC NMAH 411 CHARLES W. TRIGG PAPERS ( ) [4.5 cu. ft: 8 DB, 5 ShB, 1 F/O] Biography Charles Wilderman Trigg ( ) was born in Baltimore. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1917 and an M.A. in 1931 from the University of Southern California. He was an industrial Research Fellow at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, from , doing original research on processes for producing instant coffee. In 1920, he joined King Coffee Products Corporation, Detroit, as chief chemist. He later served in various college teaching positions, dean of instruction and lecturer at the University of Southern California ( ). During World War II, Trigg served as Lt. Cmdr, USNR. He published numerous articles in trade journals and was granted five patents related to coffee processing. Scope and Content Most of the material in this collection was generated by Trigg early in his career, as an industrial research fellow at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, and shortly thereafter. It includes laboratory notebooks, formal weekly reports (typewritten) on his investigations, and correspondence with his industrial sponsors. Personal data on Trigg is confined to a few personal letters and some correspondence relating to his interest in coffee processing. His patents and correspondence relating to them are included in the personal information. A collection of clippings and reprints of technical articles on tea and coffee processing and culture are dated from 1883 to U.S. patents relating to these subjects go back to 1834 and up to Foreign patents, including British, French and German, range from 1855 to Pamphlets contain technical articles on coffee and related subjects, including U.S. Department of Agriculture and Canadian

2 - 2 - Government publications. Trigg's personal file of 4" x 6" cards (mainly hand-written) reflects his extensive reading of technical literature. It numbers more than 5,000 cards arranged chronologically. The cards contain bibliographic data as well as Trigg's brief abstractions. Provenance The Trigg papers were donated to the NMAH Archives Center by Mrs. Charles W. Trigg on May 30, Don Darroch November 25, 1992

3 - 3 - AC NMAH 411 CHARLES W. TRIGG PAPERS [4.5 cu.ft.: 8 DB, 5 ShB, 1 F/O] Container List Series 1: C.W. Trigg Work at Mellon Institute BOX FOLDER 1 1 Laboratory notebooks J.E. King Industrial Fellowship reports Laboratory notebooks Laboratory notebooks Laboratory notebooks Progress reports Correspondence Trigg correspondence Trigg correspondence Laboratory test notes and recordings German correspondence (oversize) Photographs of Mellon Institute staff 1917 Diplomas and certificates

4 - 4 - Series 2: Personal Data and Patents of C. W.Trigg 2 1 Trigg personal Correspondence Correspondence Lummus Co. correspondence Article, ideas Clippings, papers Patent correspondence (Hamer, Trigg, Barnes) Patent applications Original patents, patent assignments, Trigg/King U.S. Patent Office correspondence Trigg Patents

5 Laboratory notebook, test results Laboratory notebooks Trigg Patent correspondence Oils and essential oils Foods, Coffee Production process, blank forms, n.d Correspondence Coffee (report of the Business Bourse) c King Coffee Co. prospectus, (oversize) King Coffee building plans 1921 Mathematical charts, n.d. Series 3: Abstracts from Technical Articles on Coffee, Tea; Correspondence, Clippings 4 1 Coffee clippings Coffee bibliography Coffee correspondence Coffee (copies) Tea clippings Tea/coffee clippings Tea bibliography Tea correspondence Tea (copies) Tea (copies) Tea reprints Technical articles (German/English) Coffee reprints Reprints, Robert Kennedy Duncan Club Bulletin, Coffee tree culture (n.d.)

6 - 6 - Series 4: Patents and Patent Abstracts re: Coffee Processing 5 1 U.S. patents 0-100,000 ( ) 2 U.S. patents 100, ,000 (1870) 3 U.S. patents 200, ,000 ( ) 4 U.S. patents 300, ,00 ( ) 6 5 U.S. patents 400, ,000 ( ) 6 U.S. patents 500, ,000 ( ) 7 U.S. patents 600, ,000 ( ) 8 U.S. patents 700, ,000 ( )

7 - 7-9 U.S. patents 800, ,000 ( ) 10 U.S. patents 900,001-1,000,000 ( ) 11 U.S. patents 1,000,001-1,100,000 ( ) 12 U.S. patents 1,100,001-1,200,000 ( ) 13 U.S. patents 1,200,001-1,300,000 ( ) 7 14 U.S. patents 1,300,001-1,400,000 ( ) 15 U.S. patents 1,400,001-1,500,000 (1921) 16 British patents ( ) 17 French patents ( ) 18 German patents ( ) Series 5: Technical Publications ( ) Box # 8: FOLDER ITEM 1 1 Publication of Mysore Coffee for The English Market. Fraser Press, Preparation of Coffee. Kenya Dept. of Agriculture, How Whisky, Tobacco and Drugs Affect the Eyes. American Medical Assn., 1914 (Phamphlets vi and xvi) 4 Tea and Coffee: Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects. New York: Fowler and Wells, n.d. 5 The Volatile Principles of Coffee. L. E. Sayre, Robusta Coffee. Viehoever and Lepper, Coffee Planting. Hillman, Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1891

8 - 8-9 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., 1906

9 - 9 - Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 2 11 Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Tea. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Coffee and Coffee Substitutes. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., Coffee and Substitutes. Canada: Laboratory of Inlnad Revenue Dept., Methods of Cultivation of Coffee. Kenya, "The Nose and Its Work." Harper's Magazine, Ground Coffee. Canada: Laboratory of Inland Revenue Dept., "Scientific Analysis of Tea." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, Service and Regulatory Announcements. U.S. Dept of Agriculture (3), Weight Variation of Package Foods. USDA, Prices of Tea, Coffee and Cocoa. War Industries Board, Studies in Clarification of Unfermented Fruit Juices. USDA Service and Regulatory Announcements. USDA, 1916

10 Apple Syrup and Concentrated Cider. USDA, Toxicity of Caffeine: An Experimental Study. USDA, 1912

11 Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 28 Food Products and Drugs Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 29 Food Products and Drugs Connecticut AES 30 Food Products and Drugs Connecticut AES 4 31 American Journal of Pharmacy, Digestibility of Cod-Liver [and other] Oils. USDA, Coffee Roasting with Gas. Milwaukee Gas Light Co., Application of Gas to Coffee and Cereal Roasting. National Commercial Gas Assn., Coffee Interpretations. Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Committee, "German Patent Bibliography." Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, "New Use for Coffee Grounds." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Ground Coffee. Ottawa: Inland Revenue Dept., Ground Coffee. Ottawa: Inland Revenue Dept., "Improved Method for Quantitative Determination of Caffeine in Vegetable Material." Journal of American Chemical Society, L'Huile Grasse des Graines de the'. National Institute of Colonial Agriculture, 1923

12 Recueil de Travux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. Netherlands Chemical Society, Overdruk uit het Nederlandsch Indisch, Vanille, Vanilline, Vanille-Extracten. Colonial Institute of Amsterdam, 1922

13 Box # 8 (cont'd.): FOLDER ITEM 5 45 "100 lb. of Coffee Roasted at Fuel Cost of 7 cents for Gas." American Gas Engineering Journal, "Caffeine from Coffee Soot." Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, Technologie du The'. Paris: Library of Colonial Agriculture, Journal of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Journal of New York Botanical Garden, Coffee Planting--Nitrate of Soda Propaganda, n.d. Series 6: Trigg Card File ( ) BOX ITEM 9 Chemical Abstract, vols ( ): cards , 10 Chemical Abstract, vols ( ): cards Chemical Abstract, vols ( ): cards Chemical Abstract, vol. 32 ( ): non-numbered cards U.S. Patents ( ): cards U.S. Patents ( ): cards U.S. Patents ( ): non-numbered, 150 cards 13 Index Medicus, 1st series ( ): approx. 80 cards

14 Index Medicus, 2nd series ( ): approx. 300 cards Index Medicus, 3rd series ( ): 17 cards Cumulative Index ( ): 27 cards Journal of Society of Chemical Industry ( ): cards 1-35 Miscellaneous publications ( ): approx. 450 cards